They are quite playable. Only thing I noticed was a little longer load times, but that was on my old rig with one 1 GB of RAM. With your system you won't have any problems. Only thing I had to do for Call of Duty 2 was tell it to run in XP SP2 compatibility mode. All is fine.

All of my games play pretty much identically on vista SP1 (laptop w/8800mGTX) as they do on my desktop with XP Home SP3 (8800GS) In fact thanks to the slightly more powerful GPU they run slightly better on my laptop (unless I overclock my 8800GS to game).

on XP Far Cry requires a Patch otherwise u get the horrible tearing u mentioned. probably the same on Vista with sounds of it.

get the 1.3 or 1.4 patch ,it should fix it.

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yeah i think i'll order it today and give it a go

i love that game....love it. i used to say its my all time fave and if i play again i'll prolly fall in love with it again

i never got to experience it "maxed out." may sound silly bcuz its got older graphics now, but i still want to. full AA, native res, and in "Paradise" mode.

when i got the game i had an FX5200. medium and low all the way. then with a 6600GT....High, for the most part with my old p4 2.8a (a non hyperthreaded Prescott ) but no AA and still below native res. and no "Paradise" mode.